Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-20

| The ladies 20 TO Saratoga or Newport
in the summer, and meet New York
people of wealth who invite them to
the city, and once here they are
soon in the swirl OF fashion. They
want the most Tcchcrchd toilets, the
finest silks, the most expensive laces,
and hundred other luxuries OF dress,
including nameless refinemcnts OF lin
| gerie. A month or two of New York
really settles the matter. They are dis
satisfied on returning home, and soon
they are again in New York A brown
stone mansion must be bought or il. is
hados on earth for the cold man. /;
there must be horses and carriages,
liyeriod coachmen, and footman in top
! boots there must be balls and receD.
tons and kettledrums and round OF
rvelry until the old man is half dis
tfactod. But what can he do? He has
millions and has to pay the penalty.
OF course there are agood many western
millionaires who care next to nothing
about New York, but the number of
those who do care, or whose families
care, is increasing. and the fact is in
disputable that New York is not only
the commercial but the social capital
of the republic.
MACKAT.
John W. Mackay, the bonanza king,
who once swung pick in mine, and
who is now worth $4,000, 900, alter
mates between New York and San Fran
cisco, but his wife seems to. care little
for New York, and lives most of the
time in Paris or London. In New
York Mr.. Mackay can usually be found
at the Nevada Bank, in which he owns
half the stock. James Q. Flood,
another bonanza magnate, seldom
comes here. He is president of the
Nevada Bank. and lives in San Fran
cisco. All of these men set out from
New York for the golden fields of adj
venture in California, but all were of
Irish birth, as was also James Ga
Fair, the other bonanza king, who
seems TO have proved himself the ablest
OF the four, as well as the best edu-
Gated. 1t is o curious fact that four
poor and friendlcss IriShmen captured
the lions shares of the two hundred
millions taken from famous mines of
the Comstock lode. Mackay is the
only one who has become more or less
known socially in New York. He
feels the deficiencies of education, and
does not aspire to social prominence.
There are many men here who Won
fortunes in the West, though they
were born at the East. c. +. Hunt
ington has lived here many years. He is
worth $50, 900, 900, and lives in fine
style on Park avenue. His social stand
ing is not high. He is n man of rugged
nature. natural leader, and in his
sixty-fifth year.
CROKER.
Charles Croker lives here. He is
second vice president of the Central
Pacific road, and is worth ten or fifteen
millions. lie is now about sixty five.
He is q native of Ohio, and went to
Sacramento in the early days OF the
mining excitement. Once upon a time
he was a blacksmith, and used to get
up at 4 o'clock in the morning to strike
the sounding forge. Railroads gave
him his millions. ID. o. Mills. who
made most of his fortune in California.
has lived here for about fifteen years.
He used to drive a hack in
small town up the Hudson river.
He went West and became associated
with William c. Ralston, that financial
meteor of California, in the Organiza-
ton of the California Bank, which was
to come down with crash and drive
RalstOn to suicides death. Soon af-
ter coming to New York Mr.. Mills was
advised by William H. Vanderbilt to
buy Lake Shore. He did so. and made
nearly S3,000,000, with which he
erected the Mills building. He made
his money in railroads, mining, and
banks. Senator John p. Jones, of
Nevada, is often seen in New York.
He made five or six millions in Califor-
MIA mines and lost ii trying to become
a railroad magnate. John W. Mackay
has helped him, and it is understood
that he has got on his feet again
largely through mining speculations.
He is an Englishman, fiity-eight years of
age, and by nature, perhaps, more of
politician than businessman. His
term in the United States Senate will
not expire till 1891. Among the Cali
fornians more or less successful who
have settled here in recent years are
William Lent, Eugene Dewey, James
r. Keene, Harpending, H. G. Logan,
Henry Rosener, John w. Shaw, Josiah
Relden, Frank Corcoran, ID. +. Yer
denial, George ID. Robertson, Glen.
Uhler, J. II. Williams, all of whom
have had an interesting career of OK
elements Of speculation, when every
body from bootbtacks and servant-girls
upward specialized in mining shares,
and Of grim days in new mining towns,
with their savage appetite for blood
and "man for breakfast.
4 BOY ABOUT TOWN.
Some clever person recently re-
marked that the yGiSOn d'ctrC of New
York men and women was their love of
good clothes. 1t is their religion, said
the clever person u is the cud that
they chew as untiringly as the western
senators chew gum it is tradition
that they love, honor, and cherish, as
Mrs. Potter loves, honors, and cherishes
the rrince Of Wales's pins it has be-
come as much of national institution as
the cuspidor habit or the book-a9ent,
and it is the only real characteristic
shared in common 10y the men and women
of New York. At first this sounds too
like a gliitering generality ; but il you
really think about it you will soon see
that there is truth in what our clever
friend says. No men and women in
the world are as dissimilar as those
who hail from New York. English
men and girls are both the proud pos
SCISSORS of the national phlegm. French
men and women are famous all the
world over for their esprit; but the
New Yorkers-they are as different as
Ouida's inyariable brace of heroines, as
Zinteudel and Beauioiais, as Verdi and
Wagner, during moments of inspira-
tion, and yet-celO ga sans dire-they
are equally charming in their opposite
ways. 1t is really all matter of
environment, American women are
born to be amusing. They real
ize this at very early age
they know with a prophetic certainty
what awaits them if they are stupid.
1t is. therefore, not so much to their
credit that, while they are quick at
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